This is a touching, beautifully sensitive account of the psychoanalitically oriented treatment of a six-month-old infant together with her seventeen-year-old unwed mother, which was carried out through home visits. With both the marasmic infant and the rejecting mother serving as primary patients, an interpretive approach linking past and present affects saved this infant's life. The mother was able to learn that much of what had been done to her in her early childhood was being repeated in her own abandonment and neglect of her own child. As her conflicts were interpreted to her, and as she saw the consequences